John Keats:
(London, 31 October 1795 – Rome, 23 February 1821).
English poet of the Romantic era.
He led a short but intense life and is counted among the most important poets of his generation. During his lifetime, the importance of his work was not always recognised and his poetry was highly criticised, including by contemporaries such as Byron.
After his death, his reputation grew to such an extent that by the end of the 19th century he was one of the most popular English poets. He had a great influence on quite a variety of later poets and writers: Jorge Luis Borges, for instance, testified that his first encounter with Keats’s poetry had been the most important literary experience of his life.
In a drear-nighted December, too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er remember Apollo’s summer look; but with a sweet forgetting, they stay their crystal fretting, never, never petting about the frozen time.
I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.
